But as emoji with skin tones spread to Twitter, Facebook, and workplace chat applications like Slack, I noticed something I hadn’t expected: While I saw plenty of and , almost no one I knew used ...

I simply asked them if it’s ok for white people to use emoji with darker skin-tones. According to my Twitter poll, the answer is no. Of the 239 people who voted, 54 percent said it’s not ...

One of the most unusual new emoji is a woman with a beard, which is being launched ... are more closely associated with white people, than people with any darker skin tone.” ...

"It's only fair that white people should figure out how to navigate a digital world where the only emoji princess has brown skin." Moreover, I could always fall back on the default Simpsons-yellow ...

After another look at Twitter data, Andrew McGill, then writer for The Atlantic, found that some white people may stick with the yellow emoji because they don't want to assert their privilege by ...

A new draft proposal published Tuesday at the Unicode Consortium outlines a way of diversifying the mostly white people who populate your emoji keyboard. The system, presented by Google software ...

On Wednesday, NPR shared an article on Twitter claiming that "some white people" choose to use a yellow thumbs up emoji because it is a neutral choice. Academics cited in the article suggested ...

But your trepidation about which emoji skin tone to use has evidently weighed on many white people's minds since 2015, when the Unicode Consortium—the mysterious organization that sets standards ...